For even more classroom resources about the history of convict leasing, policing and mass incarceration during the Jim Crow era, be sure to visit the enhanced episode transcript. Racial Justice Podcasts But what we know from digital literacy is that what is so useful about Wikipedia, and what is almost unique about Wikipedia, is its transparency. So you have to be skeptical in a way thats appropriate of that age. So, my final question for you then. I knew then that I needed to rethink how my child, a digital native, engages with the digital world. Near Debbies body was a message written in pale rose lipstick on a floor-to-ceiling mirror that read, Now we are even Don.It was quickly dubbed the Lipstick Murder. Our students need a fuller understanding of the pivotal history of slavery to comprehend the present and develop a vision for our nations future. What we dont know about American history hurts us all. Without LGBTQ history, there is no American history. In this episode, Amnesty Internationals Ian Lekus dives into the minority-rights revolutions of the 1960s. The revolution was intersectional. Even today, many of the articles on Wikipedia are not reliable. Matthew Johnson: Well, we actually have a suite of lessons, starting from kindergarten going to the end of high school, that cover a really wide range of aspects of digital literacy. Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West w/ Charles L. Hughes. So, to be mindful of that when youre posting stuff, especially on social media. Monita Bell: I like what you were touching on there about this idea that because young people have so much access to information that they readily know how to decipher the validity of what theyre finding. In this mid-season recap, we highlight key lessons about this consequential part of American historyalong with teaching strategies and resourcesthrough the voices of leading scholars and educators featured so far. They wont know how to apply them. Thats not nice.. Teaching the civil rights movement accurately and effectively requires deconstructing the myths and misconceptions around it. Listen Now, Understanding Indigenous enslavement expands our conception of slavery in what is now the United States. Earn PD credit for any of our current seasons! What we dont know about American history hurts us all. The Americas were built on the lands, labor and lives of Indigenous peoples. learn Where kids can actually decipher fake news, as our current president always screams from the top of his lungs. And now we want more! Listen for the special code word, then visit learningforjustice.org/podcastpd. "Kelsi dropped the girls off at around 1:00 pm. So, we are going into teach AP computer science to these students, to help them not only pass the AP tests, but to also provide opportunities and open doors in computer science and computing, for students that might not necessarily have these opportunities available to them. We examine how, as white settlers moved west, so-called free soil states like California continued to institutionalize coerced labor. WebRead the Newest Issue of Learning for Justice Magazine! Brought to you by Chris Stemp and Jon Rojas, this podcast will satisfy your insatiable curiosity about things that matter. On our season finale, join Teaching Tolerance senior writer Cory Collins and hosts Leila Rupp and John DEmilio as they offer concrete tips for creating LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms and taking themes from this podcast into your daily practice. Opportunities created by the New Deal were often denied to African Americans. Don continued to walk through the house and made his way to their 15-month-old sons room. +A Voices for Justice Magnet. Of course, part of that is the idea that going online is not like going to a bookstore. And Historian Brandon T. Jett explores the commercial factors behind the transition from extra-legal lynchings to police enforcement of the color line. What works in your classroom? Shana White: Well, the first is to become knowledgable on the tool that the teachers are requesting. Special thanks to my guests, Matthew Johnson and Shana White, and to Teaching Tolerance Senior Writer Cory Collins. We also learn how four elementary teachers are beginning to use it in their classrooms. While inspecting the scene, they find the body of 30-year-old Leon Laureles. Can you talk about some of the major misconceptions regarding teaching about media and digital literacy, and how do you think teachers can overcome those misconceptions in their own practice? And educators! But she doesnt. We join Karlyn Forner and John B. Gartrell to tour the resources available through SNCC Digital Gateway. Some names have been changed or omitted per their request or for safety purposes. To better understand the Jim Crow North, we explore discrimination and Black protest in places like Milwaukee, Omaha, Cleveland and New York. Shana White: Im a Constellations fellow with the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing. But, I think leveraging social media to reach out to experts in certain fields, to expose students to things they might not necessarily get to see or hear about in their local community. Fill out a short form featuring an episode-specific question to receive a certificate. They do take the steps there, but they dont take the steps when things come to them through social media. Theres so much stuff on our plate, I totally get that. So, what we do early on is really try to make a small number of ideas very clear. So, we know from our own research with teenagers about platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, they almost never understand how it is that these platforms are making money from them. She teaches courses in game theory, comparative politics, and transitional justice at the University of Chicago. You might guess correctly or wrongly on which ones were true and false, but the point is that you cant really tell by just looking at them. Not only the various tools, but the various kinds of information and various ways to access that information. Monita Bell: Im really glad that you mentioned hate, specifically, and the various ways that can present itself in ways that arent immediately apparent. Rather than trying to, necessarily, fact-check every step of the way. European concepts of bondage transformed the way Native nations interacted with each other, resulted in the enslavement and death of millions of Indigenous people, and sparked widespread resistance by Native nations. Tamara Spears and Jordan Lanfair suggest a Social Studies unit about Resistance & Kanye West, and a set of English Language Arts lessons examining holidays to understand the legacy of American slavery. WebPrejudice is the result of fear and ignorance as illustrated in 3 outstanding films now screening on the Planet Classroom YouTube Channel:Siroun Webcast, Through the Of course, that connects to the consumer awareness as well that we also have to make kids realizeand everyone realizethat when these platforms have taken action against hate, its almost always been as a result of consumer pressure. That this is things that are happening around the country and around the world theyre a part of. Smart People Podcast. Most people are familiar with a very specific version of the movement that exaggerates government support and denies the existence and persistence of racism outside the South. And be sure to visit the show notes for this episode, for a complete transcript and resources to help you teach the ideas explored by our guests. Outro music is Melancholic Ending by Soft and Furious. Alissa went missing Monita Bell: Awesome. So, what, in your mind, is that connection between digital literacy and good democratic practice and engagement? Callers can remain anonymous. Queer America on Apple Podcasts. From common goals of racial unity to fierce debates over methods, he shows how movements of the 1920s and 1930s fed into what became the civil rights and Black Power movement. My name is Shana White, and I recently accepted a position with the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing. Shana White: Absolutely, absolutely. But, ultimately, if we want to change the trajectory of our country, and to produce great citizens, and also great digital citizens, it starts in our classrooms every single day. I think, because they perhaps often experience it themselves as young people. This podcast is produced in partnership with University of Wisconsin Press, publishers of Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History. Nurturing good digital citizenship in our students, in part, correlates directly with the culture and educator establishes in the classroom and that educators modeling of citizenship IRL: in real life. So, weve been talking some about what all is out there and available to young people. Teaching civil rights history to young learners creates both opportunities and challenges. Find out how, maybe, if this tool is not financially feasible for your school or your district, find out if there is a comparable tool that we can use, that can still meet the needs that the teacher wants met for its students. Listen for the code word, then visit learningforjustice.org/podcastpd. Justice Today | Office of Justice Programs Historian David Krugler urges listeners to call this and other violent attacks what they were: premeditated attempts at ethnic cleansing. We feel it too, so this seems like the perfect time to talk. Educators! We know from a number of sources, including our own research, that young people are more likely to encounter hate material online accidentally, rather than looking for it. Thinking of them as one and the same, and giving students what they really need to be good digital citizens. That is the perfect way to wrap that up. Much needed! In part 3 of this series, acclaimed musician, songwriter and poet Adia Victoria shows how the bittersweet nature of blues does the very emotionally mature work of acknowledging this complex history. It explores and expands on the 10 Key Concepts that ground Learning for Justices K-12 frameworks for teaching the hard history of American slavery. That there are things in this world that are so strange, they seem hard to believe but are true, and then, of course, there are things that look true but are false. Discover what educators and students alike need to knowand how we can all become safer, better informed digital citizens. Decades before, African Americans moved North in record numbers during the Great Migration. A good example there, as well, is how our views of Wikipedia have changed over the years. It was parked just off the road, near the entrance to a gun range.Minutes later, a second motorist called 911 to report they had spotted a body lying near the burning car.When the fire department and Sheriffs deputies show up, the car is engulfed in flames. Colonial settlers relied on the cooperation, exploitation and forced labor of their Native neighbors to survive and thrive in what became North America. A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center1991-2022, Episode 16:Why Hard History Matters: Addressing the Legacy of Jim Crow, Episode 15:Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow, Music Reconstructed 4: Lara Downes Classical Perspective on Jim Crow, Music Reconstructed 3: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues, Music Reconstructed 2: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West, Episode 13: Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice, Music Reconstructed 1: Jason Moran, Jazz and the Harlem Hellfighters, Episode 12:The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning, Episode 11:Changing the Game: Sports in the Jim Crow Era, Episode 10:The New Deal, Jim Crow and the Black Cabinet, Episode 9:Black Soldiers: Global Conflict During Jim Crow, Episode 8:Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs, Episode 7:Premeditation and Resilience: Tulsa, Red Summer and the Great Migration, Episode 6:Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience, Episode 5:Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause, Episode 4:Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash, Episode 3:The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race, Episode 2:Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom, Episode 17:Baseball, Civil Rights and the Anderson Monarchs Barnstorming Tour, Episode 16:Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement, Episode 15:The Black Panther Party and the Transition to Black Power, Episode 14:Malcolm X Beyond the Mythology, Episode 13:Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and SNCC, Episode 12:Listen, Look and Learn: Using Primary Sources to Teach the Freedom Struggle, Episode 11:Young, Gifted and Black: Teaching Freedom Summer to K-5 Students, Checking In: Listener Feedback and Discussing the U.S. Capitol Attack, Episode 10:Making a Scene: The Movement in Literature and Film, Episode 9:The Real Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Episode8:Connecting Slavery With the Civil Rights Movement, Episode 7:Teaching the Movements Most Iconic Figure, Episode 4:Jim Crow, Lynching and White Supremacy, Episode 15:Wrap Up: Teaching the Connections, Episode 14:Hard History in Hard Times Talking With Teachers, Special Episode:Call Us! His remains were recovered in March 2018 near Broadway Road and State Route 85 in Buckeye, Arizona. In promoting diversity and fighting racism, inclusive education programs forged pathways toward building equitable societies. Justice And be sure to visit the enhanced episode transcript for additional classroom resources for teaching about the intersection of sports and race during the Jim Crow era. I think we definitely are in a climate where teachers are made to feel, Oh, if Im not using these digital tools or Im not doing this from a technological standpoint. But, I think the onus is on administrators, to take that extra initial step, to find out why the teacher needs this tool, and sit down and talk to the teacher. Educators can no longer ignore our countrys history of Indigenous enslavement. Theyd been murdered. There might have been more discipline-related things for black students in her classroom. He called Libbys phone, but she didnt answer, so he started searching the immediate area. It offers recommendations for students conducting their own oral histories. Listen Now, How its done. So, were hoping to come out from that with some clear ideas about how we can empower young people to speak out because certainly we have resources already that are about empowering young people more broadly to shape community values online. What we dont know about American history hurts us all. Professor Steven Thurston Oliver has this advice for teachers: Face your fears. Matthew Johnson: Im not sure its so much missing as that what we really need to do at this point is fully fuse media literacy and digital literacy. So, we useat that age, when were talking the grade four-to-eight level, we usea lot of analogies and allegories. (by Sunday, April 19), Episode 13:Inseparable Separations: Slavery and Indian Removal, Episode 12:Slave Codes, Liberty Suits and the Charter Generation, Episode 11:Using the WPA Slave Narratives, Episode 10:Groundwork for Teaching Indigenous Enslavement, Episode 9:Mid-season Recap: Key Lessons on Indigenous Enslavement, Episode 8:Silver, Resistance and the Evolution of Slavery in the West, Coming Soon:Conversations with Andrs Resndez, Episode 6: Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 2, Episode 5:Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 1, Episode 3: Indigenous Enslavement: Part 2, Episode 2:Indigenous Enslavement: Part 1, Episode 1: The Hidden History of American Slavery, Coming Soon: Season 2 of Teaching Hard History, Download the transcript for all of season 1 here, Episode 18:Wrap up: Questions from the Classroom, Coming Soon: Stories From the Classroom (and More). Come to them through social media B. 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